Comment by pseudalopex
18 days ago
> Can we change "firing" to "laying off", it's a big difference to perception and legal status.
Firing does not mean what you thought probably.[1]
18 days ago
> Can we change "firing" to "laying off", it's a big difference to perception and legal status.
Firing does not mean what you thought probably.[1]
As someone replied to your other comment with, this is not correct. Firing does indeed refer to termination, which is different from redundancy. It's a colloquial term rather than a legal one, but firing is to termination as laying off is to redundancy.
These distinctions may mean less in countries without robust worker protections where the lines between the two might be blurred, but in a lot of the world these are quite distinct concepts.